Staff Backend Developer, Unity Ads / Développeur Backend Principal, Unity Ads

Unity; Canada; Remote; CAD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Canada is seeking a Staff Backend Developer to work on real-time systems for its advertising platform. This role involves designing and modernizing backend services, collaborating across teams, and ensuring optimal performance. Candidates should have a strong background in building scalable backend services and proficiency in Golang. Opportunities for growth await in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Work-life balance support

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services at scale is essential.
• Proficiency in Golang and relational databases required.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and observability tools is important.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and modernize backend services and APIs.
• Collaborate with different teams to deliver new features.
• Improve performance and cost-efficiency of backend systems.

Skills

Building backend services at scale

Proficiency in Golang

Understanding of API design

Strong collaboration skills

Tools

MySQL

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Overview

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The opportunity

Unity is looking for a Staff Backend Developer to join our Unity Ads team, where we build the real-time systems that power Unity’s global advertising platform. This is a high-scale, low-latency environment — processing billions of requests daily to deliver fast, relevant ads to players around the world. Our backend infrastructure is designed for reliability and scalability, ensuring seamless ad delivery and optimal performance even under heavy traffic.

As part of the team, you will work on distributed systems that handle real-time ad requests, impression tracking, and user data analytics with strict requirements for uptime and security. You will play a critical role in optimizing performance, maintaining service availability, and supporting the development of new monetization features for game developers worldwide. Security, data privacy, and a positive user experience are central to everything we build.

You’ll help modernize the legacy tech stack and the core services behind ad delivery, bidding, reporting, and analytics. This is a great opportunity for an engineer who’s excited to work on performance-critical systems, collaborate across teams, and grow in a fast-paced environment, all at a turning point in the company.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build, and modernise backend services and APIs that support ad delivery
• Work on scalable, high-availability systems used across Unity’s ads ecosystem
• Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and data teams to deliver new features
• Improve performance, observability, and cost-efficiency of current backend systems, modernising the legacy stack
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction of the platform

What we're looking for

• Experience building backend services at scale
• Proficiency in Golang, and relational databases (e.g., MySQL)
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and observability tools (Kubernetes, Ray, etc.)
• Understanding of API design, distributed systems, and system reliability
• Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-first team environment

You might also have

• Experience in ad tech, programmatic advertising, or real-time bidding systems
• Background with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform)
• Familiarity with networking, caching, or real-time data pipelines

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

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